Blogger - how do they stay in business?
Posted by: DrunkBunny in Blogging, ControversialI used to have a blogger blog. Many blogs I really like are on blogger. I’m not anti-blogger.
But the effort required to leave a comment when you don’t want to link to a blogger blog of your own… holy crap!
I still have blogger blogs on my blogroll but it’s no fun going to blogs where you avoid leaving comments becuase of the 12-step pain in the ass process required to do so. So they’re not nearly as enjoyable to visit as other blogs. And that stupid word verification! Do we really need someone to enter nine letters just for the honor of leaving a comment? Wordpress has an amazing comment spam filter, making the word verification completely unnecessary.
Blogger is about 3 years behind technically, and with free blogs available at wordpress.com that have much better functionality and are much friendlier to your site visitors, I don’t understand why more people aren’t dropping blogger.
Oh, did I mention that you can import your Blogger blog and comments into wordpress blogs very easily? 
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I have a blog at Wordpress (http://4urpets.wordpress.com) and a blog at Blogspot (Blogger). Yes, I agree that it is a pain in the patootie to verify all those letters. Sometimes it takes me a couple tries. I took the verification off my blog, so they don’t have to go through all that with mine.
I don’t get that many comments either, and believe me I have commented on a lot of Blogspot blogs.
Can you tell me how to import Blogspot’s blogs to Wordpress?, I would love to do that.
I think the main reason everyone goes over to blogspot is because they can advertise. They think they can make some money, but the only one making money is Blogspot.
haha. And did I mention WORD VERIFICATION is the antichrist?
Kathryn, from your control panel you just go to Manage, then Import
Interesting. Any other advantages to Wordpress other than the comment section?
@Victoria: Oh man, everything in Wordpress is better to me than blogger, once I got used to it. If your blog is on wordpress.com and you find another wordpress.com blog you like, you just click a few times to add the link to your blogroll. Writing and managing your posts is easier. On wordpress.com you get 3 gigabytes of free image storage as well. You can add widgets and plugins, I can go on and on.